1st-Year Head Coach Alvin Wyse and his Mineral City Tigers basketball players who will use the Tiger system this season are pictured above. Top: Center Elmer Bell - Coach Alvin Wyse and Forward Bob Osborn, the one veteran from last year's squad. Bottom: Guard Fred Fishley - Guard Dick Carpenter and Forward Alex Lindsay.
MINERAL CITY - One of the smallest basketball squads in the Class B League...in point of numbers...will be the Mineral City Tigers which opened its season a week ago with a triumph over its Alumni and which tangles with the Stone Creek Panthers on the Creekers' floor tonight in the 2nd contest on its slate and its 1st League tussle.
However the Mineralites are showing a lot of spirit and the new coach there may have something to do with it. He is Alvin Wyse of Manchester College. Manchester College is located in Indiana and that state is famed more than any other for its basketball. It may serve as a warning to Mineral City opponents. Head Coach Wyse is starting almost from scratch with his 1st outfit in the county loop. He has only 1 letterman back from last year's squad...Bob Osborn.
Osborn, 5 feet, 10 inches tall and husky, is a forward and will probably team with either Clyde McKinney - Alex Lindsay - Dick Carpenter or Fred Fishley at the offensive end of the floor. Elmer Bell, 6-foot center, will be at the pivot position and a pair of those originally named will be the team's 1st line of defense, according to Coach Wyse's present plans. In addition to that group, Coach Wyse has 6 others who will gain at least the ranks of the Reserve Team and the best of the 6 will be used as varsity replacements along with those of the 1st group who do not start.
In the Reserve group are Fred Hoover - Jack Bozman - Edwin Markham - Carl Hoover - Wilbur Bailey and Buddy Jones. As was said before, only one of those reporting for the practice earned a letter last season, but a number of the other members of the squad gained valuable experience playing with the Reserve combinations.
The Mineralites have a slate of 17 games drawn for their winter's work and 10 of the opponents are in the county League. Others include East Sparta, Magnolia and Canton Township of Stark County.
Friday, November 19, 1937
Clyde Shaffer, Sports Editor
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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